Jeff Foust

{{short description|American journalist}}

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Jeff Foust is an aerospace analyst, journalist and publisher. A senior aerospace analyst with the Futron Corporation in Bethesda, Maryland,{{cite web|url=http://www.futron.com/2010_Events_Archive.xml |title=2010 Events Archive |publisher=Futron Corp |accessdate=18 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312051548/http://www.futron.com/2010_Events_Archive.xml |archivedate=12 March 2014 }} he is the editor and publisher of The Space Review and has written for Astronomy Now and The New Atlantis.[http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/15/soa/lunarbase.htm "Back to the Moon, To Stay?"], Jeff Foust, The New Atlantis Number 15, Winter 2007, pp. 131-134.{{cite web|url=http://www.thenewatlantis.com/authors/jeff-foust |title=Jeff Foust in The New Atlantis |accessdate=18 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130312012255/http://www.thenewatlantis.com/authors/jeff-foust |archivedate=12 March 2013 }} He was the writer of the blog Space Politics, which went on indefinite hiatus in 2014 when he accepted a position at SpaceNews.{{cite web |last1=Foust |first1=Jeff |title=A New Chapter |url=http://www.spacepolitics.com/ |website=Space Politics |access-date=21 November 2022}}

He has a bachelor's degree in geophysics from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[http://www.thespaceshow.com/detail.asp?q=230 Biography of Jeff Foust] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051217121938/http://www.thespaceshow.com/detail.asp?q=230 |date=2005-12-17 }} at The Space Show